The SoyaCincau blog put the new Face Unlock feature of ICS to the test at a recent Samsung event, and it was cracked pretty easily by a picture of the user's face on another phone. The writer claims that he programmed the lock to recognize his actual face, not the photo on the other phone, and after a few tries, viola—unlocked Galaxy Nexus.

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At the time of its announcement, a lot of folks were murmuring that something like this would be possible, but The Next Web notes that Android-focused Developer Advocate Tim Bray settled everyone's concerns by saying it wouldn't. Now, um. We'll let you know if Google has anything to say about the video; and of course, ICS isn't even out yet, so there's still time to patch a fix if something's amiss. But for the moment, jealous boyfriends and girlfriends everywhere have something to celebrate. [soyacincuatv via HuffPo, The Next Web]